Re: SMTP Authentication

[Kris Kelley]

Huseyin YUCE wrote:
> > We have Installed Qmail and configured . It is Working fine. Now we need
> > to Authenticate SMTP connections. How to go about? Is there any way to
> > authenticate using unix password /etc/passwd

Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote:
> Lack of identification system built-in to SMTP is "royal pain"
> of smtp security


Authenticated SMTP is a reality, it just takes a patch to qmail and an
appropriate checkpassword-compatable program to do it.  Look at
www.qmail.org/top.html and do a search for Krzysztof Dabrowski, the author
of the best patch for ESMTP AUTH.

---Kris Kelley